Reducing regulatory risk for renewable-energy investment
Research on enabling foreign direct investment, government grievance mechanisms, and the prevention of investor-state conflict.
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Independent judgment for complex public decisions.
A senior-led advisory model built on economics, policy, institutional understanding, and implementation experience.
The advantage of a focused firm is not appearing larger. It is bringing the right senior attention to the problem.
PSG was created for questions that sit between traditional consulting categories, where economics, government, markets, institutions, and execution must be considered together.
We advise leaders facing high-stakes policy, investment, and delivery choices. Our role is to frame the decision precisely, build the relevant evidence, make trade-offs explicit, and translate the conclusion into a practical course of action.
We are intentionally senior-led. Clients work directly with experienced leadership, supported by fit-for-purpose expertise when the mandate requires it.
Institutional rigor without institutional drag
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Independent
We test assumptions and present the evidence as it is, even when the conclusion is inconvenient.
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Multidisciplinary
We connect economics, political economy, regulation, institutions, strategy, and behavior.
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Decision-focused
Every workstream must improve a real choice, reduce uncertainty, or strengthen implementation.
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Context-aware
Recommendations account for institutional capacity, stakeholder incentives, and political reality.
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Collaborative
We work with client teams to develop usable answers and build ownership of the path forward.
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Accountable
Senior involvement remains direct from scoping through synthesis and delivery planning.
Siddharth Ramalingam
Siddharth is a strategy and policy advisor with more than 15 years of experience across growth strategy, operational transformation, economic research, investment climate, and international development.
His career has spanned strategy consulting, technology, public policy, and development institutions. He has worked on questions involving economic growth, foreign direct investment, regulatory risk, public-program evaluation, behavioral science, and organizational performance.
His geographic experience spans North America, Europe, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
- Harvard Kennedy School
- Master in Public Administration
- London School of Economics
- Study in political theory
- Economics
- Academic foundation in markets and public policy
- Human rights law
- Interdisciplinary grounding in institutions and rights
Prior professional experience includes Boston Consulting Group, Cisco, Deloitte, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, the World Bank, and IDFC.
Organizations are referenced solely as part of Siddharth’s prior professional background and do not imply endorsement of Plain Sight Group.
Selected prior work
Evaluating a bilateral maternal and child health initiative
Program evaluation examining implementation and results across a complex international development partnership.
Interpreting macroeconomic conditions and policy choices
Analysis of growth, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, investment, trade, and the outlook for the Indian economy.
On attribution. This work was carried out through prior institutions and predates Plain Sight Group. It is presented as founder experience, not as PSG client engagements, and prior affiliations do not imply endorsement of PSG.